seeing him get baptized was the
greatest feeling in the world. That made me so happy. Like... I don't know how
to describe it. He has changed so much. I'm just so happy. :)

There are so many neat and
wonderful spiritual experiences that I have had, I love it out here, even when
times are rough, they are still pretty good.

So I want to emphasize again
the importance of reading together.

My message that I have taken away from my mission is that
obviously, people need to choose for themselves, and can't... or at least
shouldn't be forced into something. Something I always struggled with was the
concept of indoctrination, large amounts of atheist friends, and they mention
it a lot...

To me, for a long time, it
seemed like the church was almost pro indoctrination, but as I have served, I
have seen why a)indoctrination doesn't work, and b) why it is so important to
read the scriptures together and individually.

So reading together, for a long
period of time, gives families the chance to see the blessing in their lives,
due to reading together. When people have to make choices, they have already
seen the better choice, and make choices for themselves, not because it is a family
thing, but because they have benefitted.

Additionally, there is
absolutely nothing that is better for strengthening a family, than to read the
Book of Mormon together.

I could give a lesson on this
for hours. This has hit me so hard that 3Nephi 18:21 has become my favourite
scripture.